In it lie the body of Canova and the heart of Titian, under magnificent monuments.

Titian died at the age of almost one hundred years.

A plague which swept away fifty thousand lives was raging at the time, and there is notable evidence of the reverence in which the great painter was held, in the fact that to him alone the state permitted a public funeral in all that season of terror and death.
In this church, also, is a monument to the doge Foscari, whose name a once resident of Venice, Lord Byron, has made permanently famous.
The monument to the doge Giovanni Pesaro, in this church, is a curiosity in the way of mortuary adornment.

It is eighty feet high and is fronted like some fantastic pagan temple.

Against it stand four colossal Nubians, as black as night, dressed in white marble garments.